In a special session this week, the Mississippi State Legislature approved a lottery to raise money for roads and bridges. The cartoonist's homepage, clarionledger.com/opinion Marshall Ramsey, The (Jackson, Miss.) Clarion Ledger

The Miami Hurricanes have pledged to wear uniforms made recycled waste from the ocean at their season opener Sept. 2, 2018. The cartoonist's homepage, tallahassee.com/opinion Nathan Archer, Tallahassee (Fla.) Democrat

President Trump's former doorman, once paid off and now free to speak, re-emerges. The late-night comics explain his take and what it all means, https://usat.ly/2BUC11j USA TODAY

The recent scandals coming out of the White House are becoming too numerous to count. The comics have a few theories on why that's happening in the Best of Late Night, https://usat.ly/2Bi0PQP USA TODAY

Unite the Right's sequel rally was a bust this past weekend, with barely enough people to field a volleyball team, late-night comics say. They ordered pizza and had leftovers, https://usat.ly/2BcJEjy USA TODAY

Buncombe County, North Carolina's former county manager, Wanda Greene, 67; and assistant county managers Jon Creighton, 66, and Mandy Stone, 59, were indicted Aug. 7, 2018, with a series of federal crimes, including taking bribes and kickbacks from contractors. The cartoonist's homepage, citizen-times.com/voices-views David Cohen, Asheville (N.C.) Citizen-Times

So what's happening in Washington? According to the late-night comics, President Donald Trump wants Rudy Giuliani to be the first one launched into space, the NRA's only asset is Congress and our leader is resisting collusion that could be beneficial, https://usat.ly/2ngEVU9 USA TODAY